Tag: WTO

• Tuesday, February 23rd 2021 - 13:29 UTC

  Halal chicken dispute blocks Brazil/Indonesia free trade talks

  

  Brazil should only begin free trade talks with Indonesia if it adopts recommendations made by a World Trade Organization panel in 2017 after a dispute over halal chicken, Brazil's meat lobby ABPA said in a letter sent to three government ministries.

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• Sunday, February 21st 2021 - 17:17 UTC

  WTO chief calls on rich countries to share vaccines now, rather than waiting for the surplus

  

  The World Trade Organization, WTO, chief said that UK and other wealthy nations should send Covid-19 vaccines to poorer countries now rather than waiting for the surplus.

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• Thursday, December 10th 2020 - 09:05 UTC

  Amnesty International: Right to life, public health demand extraordinary cooperation

  

  Governments should stop blocking a temporary waiver of some global intellectual property rules that will help boost global access to COVID-19 vaccines, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday ahead of a key World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting in Geneva on December 10, 2020.

• Friday, October 30th 2020 - 08:34 UTC

  US rejects Nigerian candidate as next WTO director-general, further paralyzing the global trade watchdog

  

  The World Trade Organization's (WTO) bid to select a new leader was plunged into uncertainty this Wednesday after the United States rejected the Nigerian woman proposed as the global trade watchdog's next director-general.

• Saturday, September 19th 2020 - 07:49 UTC

  UK candidate Dr Liam Fox, through to 2nd round in WTO Director General contest

  

  Former UK International Trade Secretary Dr Liam Fox said on Friday experienced leadership is needed as the selection process continues to replace the World Trade Organization Director-General chair.

• Wednesday, September 16th 2020 - 07:50 UTC

  US tariffs on Chinese goods breach trade rules, says WTO; Trump suggests he will abandon the organization

  

  The World Trade Organization found on Tuesday that the United States breached global trading rules by imposing multibillion-dollar tariffs in President Donald Trump’s trade war with China, a ruling that drew anger from Washington.

• Wednesday, July 1st 2020 - 08:07 UTC

  WTO confident of securing an agreement on cutting fisheries subsidies this year

  

  The World Trade Organization (WTO) aims to secure an agreement on cutting fisheries subsidies this year, the chair of the talks, and a WTO official said on Tuesday, despite the cancellation of a major meeting due to COVID-19.

• Tuesday, June 9th 2020 - 08:03 UTC

  Mexican NAFTA negotiator, candidate for director general of WTO

  

  Mexico is set to propose senior trade official Jesus Seade, who helped rework the North American Free Trade Agreement, as a candidate to be the next director-general of the World Trade Organization (WTO), government sources said.

• Thursday, April 9th 2020 - 09:17 UTC

  Global trade expected to plummet this year, says World Trade Organization

  

  Global trade growth is expected to plummet by up to a third in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, the World Trade Organization said on Wednesday, warning that the numbers would be “ugly”.

• Thursday, April 2nd 2020 - 07:36 UTC

  Mitigating impacts of Covid-19 on food trade and markets

  

  The following is the statement by FAO's chief Qu Donguy, WHO's Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyseus and WTO's director-general Roberto Azevedo.